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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Melodies and harmonies combine pitches according to rules that we have internalized through experience. Listen to musical examples that demonstrate unresolved and resolved expectations. Consider the analogy to grammar in language, and search for a connection between music and language in the brain..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Classify all different types of four-sided polygons (called quadrilaterals) and learn the surprising characteristics about the diagonals and interior angles of rectangles, rhombuses, trapezoids, and more. Also see how real-life objects—like ironing boards—exhibit these geometric characteristics.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dig deeper into the treasure trove of data from the Kepler mission, which discovered hundreds of compact multiplanet systems, with planets much more closely packed than in our solar system. Explore the dynamics of these groupings, which have planets interacting strongly through mutual gravitation..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Delve into data visualization and simulations—two areas where computers have had a revolutionary but under-recognized impact. Learn how to do both with matplotlib, a Python package for creating plots, graphs, and charts. Use it to design a financial simulation that can help you plan your retirement.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Continue your study of live-event photography with this lesson that takes you to a family fishing trip in Nebraska’s Bohemian Alps. How does an expert photojournalist use establishing shots, detail shots, and interesting lighting effects to tell the (sometimes hidden) stories behind all the fishing, cookouts, and family fun?.
Publisher
Videofashion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Videofashion has your first class ticket to Tommy Hilfiger’s Autumn/Winter 2016 naval-inspired collection. Designer Deborah Lloyd takes inspiration from dancers and songtresses for Kate Spade's sweetly sophisticated Fall 2016 collection. Holding his runway show in New York's St. Bartholomew's Church, Alexander Wang shows a collection that’s as chic as it is scandalous. Plus, Herve Leger goes punk for...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Geometry is based on a handful of definitions and axioms involving points, lines, and angles. These lead to important conclusions about the properties ofpolygons. This lecture uses geometric reasoning to derive the Pythagorean theorem and other interesting results.
48) Social Robots
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Enter the brave new world of social robotics, where robots are built specifically to communicate with humans and other autonomous physical agents. With the help of the robot Baxter, discover how simple signals like spoken words, expressions, and body language can create a dynamic user interface between human and robot..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Government policies are a major source of uncertainty, since they can alter our lives in unpredictable ways. Study the surprising outcomes from several government interventions in the U.S. economy. In particular, look at the regulatory cycle model, which shows how a complex system responds to new regulations..
50) Find the Picture
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Think of photography as visual problem solving. How do you find perfect shots in the midst of crowded “problem areas” like an historic mansion? How about in sparse environments like an abandoned farmhouse? Here, learn savvier ways to find the pictures you want—or may not have known you wanted..
Publisher
Videofashion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Dennis Basso’s Fall 2016 collection is all about wild, untamed luxury, with pieces inspired by the winter woods. Marissa Webb balances feminine dresses with edgy street style for her wearable, chic collection. Designer Sophia Sizzi explores the idea of empowerment through heartbreak for Guilietta’s sleek and clever collection. Plus, Narciso Rodriguez shows an architecturally elegant Fall collection of...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This program covers the important topic of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation in Physics. We begin by discussing the how energy is transferred from an object using these three primary mechanisms and how they might be observed in everyday life. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to the harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
See how data from the Kepler spacecraft confirms a scenario straight out of the movie Star Wars: a planet with two suns. Investigate the tricky orbital mechanics of these systems. A double star also complicates the heating and cooling cycle on a planet. However, the view is spectacular!.
Publisher
Videofashion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Antonio Berardi pairs the ultra-tough with the ultra-feminine, in a darkly glamorous, red-carpet worthy collection for Fall 2016. At Temperley London, Alice Temperley is shipwrecked, with "pirates, sirens and nymphs"suggesting a sassy season ahead. Bora Aksu looks to the life of the last Duchess of Russia, Olga Alexandrovna — from her aristocratic years to her time as a farm girl — to inspire his Autumn/Winter...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Traffic engineers help to ensure the safe and efficient movement of vehicles and pedestrians within a road system. Focus on their approach to intersection design, examining the many factors that go into determining whether you’re faced with a traffic signal, an overpass, a flyover ramp, or some other means of traffic control..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gain insights into tips and practices that emergency department doctors and patients should know to ensure their safety. Topics include the risks of conscious sedation (which is less safe than general anesthesia), the importance of knowing your allergies, and the dangers involved in handing off a patient to another provider..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You're a doctor 11 hours into your shift, and you've just walked into a waiting area packed with patients. There's an elderly man complaining of chest pain, a teenage girl whose arms are swollen with bee stings, and an ambulance bringing in two unresponsive kids from a car crash. What do you do next? In Dr. Benaroch's 24 lectures, experience for yourself the high-stakes drama and medical insights of life in an everyday emergency department: the most...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The most secure science, mathematics, hit the rocks of uncertainty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Trace the shocking discoveries of non-Euclidean geometries, Cantor’s paradoxes of infinite sets, and the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Godel. See how Alice in Wonderland sheds intriguing light on this new view of reality..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explore the history of genetic engineering, which has roots in the imaginary hybrid creatures of ancient myth. Learn how real hybrids can be made by splicing genes for desired traits into the genome of an organism. Then discover how this brave new technology is being used..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Join the quest for life on exoplanets, focusing on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)—a hunt for signals from alien civilizations inspired by a landmark paper in 1959. See how the famous Drake equation points to factors that determine how many such civilizations may exist..
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